LA PLATA.- The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, reacted this Thursday to a demand for sanitation works in the town of Carlos Casares, promoted by La Libertad Avanza. When it was pointed out to him that the demand came from supporters of Javier Milei, he raised his voice: "They have no shame. Go ask the President, you shameless people," he emphasized. The controversy arose after provincial senator Analía Balaudo, along with councilors Franco Cruceño, Viviana Neschenko and Ezequiel Orazi, all from LLA, accused the company Aguas Bonaerenses S.A. (ABSA) and the state officials who administer it of alleged irregularities and critical deficiencies in the provision of the service. The libertarians reported to the courts that the duties related to an essential public service would not have been fulfilled and warned about the impact that the lack of water has on residents. The judicial complaint is focused on the town of Carlos Casares. But from the space that answers to President Milei, it was specified that the water shortage problems are repeated in 95 municipalities of the territory that Kicillof has governed for 7 years. "We have a problem here: water. La Libertad Avanza took the complaint to court," a local journalist told Kicillof during his visit to Carlos Casares. Governor Axel Kicillof responds to LLA's questions about the lack of sanitation works and school buildings. The governor responded, in a tone unusual for him: "Is anyone from La Libertad Avanza demanding public works? These people have no shame. Put on the little videos of Milei saying zero public works. And let them go ask the President. Go ask the President for what he stole from the province. Shameless people." The governor sought to explain: "There are historic aqueducts. The old pipes have been deteriorating. They have to be rebuilt. We are working. It cannot be explained how we continue to do these things given the disaster we have from the national government's abandonment. We are paying for everything. And even so, we are launching an aqueduct for 25 million pesos," Kicillof detailed. The French-Carlos Casares Aqueduct has financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and requires, according to the province, an investment of 23,950 million pesos. In that context, Kicillof stated: "In the midst of so many difficulties, we are going to launch a work long awaited by Carlos Casares: a 30-kilometer aqueduct to guarantee access to water in the municipality." And he added: "Even though the national government paralyzed all the projects, we continue making a great effort to sustain the works that bring concrete solutions to the problems of Buenos Aires families." Kicillof in Carlos Casares. Next to Kicillof, the Minister of Infrastructure, Gabriel Katopodis, specified that the work is being tendered. He added that there are also works worth 1,700 million pesos for two towns near Carlos Casares and stormwater works worth 4,500 million pesos related to El Niño prevention. The controversy between the Nation and the Province is one of the points of greatest tension between the governments of Kicillof —who claims a thousand paralyzed works— and Milei, who denies a financial asphyxiation of this territory. According to a detail provided by the Province, the national government keeps works in this territory paralyzed worth 9.2 trillion pesos. Among them are 180 public works executed by the Nation in the Province worth 5,492,185 million; the Procrear Program worth 1,518,048 million; agreements between the Nation and municipalities for 755 works worth 866,499 million; the own-home program for the construction of 9,725 homes in 52 municipalities worth 364,055 million; tripartite infrastructure between the Nation, province and municipalities worth 81,939 million; thirty works in universities located in provincial territory worth 59,462 million, according to the province's complaint. Cross complaints. While the provincial government makes claims against the Nation, the Buenos Aires senator from LLA Analía Balaudo filed a criminal complaint against ABSA and officials of the Government of the province of Buenos Aires with jurisdiction in the area, over the critical situation faced by the residents of Carlos Casares due to the lack of supply. The flooding and lack of water in the middle of the summer season motivated the judicial filing last January. "It is not a new problem nor an unforeseen one; since March 2025 the low pressure began, it continued in the winter and worsened in the spring with power cuts that left the Moctezuma aqueduct out of service," warned the legislator. "In December the system collapsed; in January, outright emergency: residents went days without water and health centers were supplied with water tanker trucks — this is happening in the province of Buenos Aires in 2026; in the rural areas it was worse, residents without water and without electricity at the same time," Balaudo recounted. The problem reached the Ombudsman's Office of the province of Buenos Aires. However, in the face of the lack of responses, Balaudo decided to file, together with the local councilors Franco Cruceño, Viviana Neschenko and Ezequiel Orazi, a criminal complaint in the courts. Axel Kicillof